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A proposed all-Ireland forum on dealing with the effects | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of the UK leaving the European Union didn't make the talks table | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
at today's North South Ministerial Council. | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
The idea was floated over the weekend, but disappeared | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
when the First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster said | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon reports from Dublin. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
The first North-South meeting after Brexit, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
I think the important thing is that the Taoiseach has agreed | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
to establish a forum to deal with the massive challenges that | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
face all of us on this island and I think that's a good thing. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The Taoiseach may have agreed it, but he neglected to mention it | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
to the First Minister and the DUP did not want another North-South | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
body so when the ministers re-emerged the forum did not feature | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
It wasn't discussed with me at any stage over the weekend or indeed | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
before and it wasn't discussed today, but what was discussed | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
was the fact that we do intend to continue to use all of those | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
different mechanisms which Enda has talked about, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
the British-Irish Council, the North-South Ministerial Council | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
and and all of our very continuing talks between | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
the different ministers, theat take place on an ongoing | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
That wasn't what her partner in government wanted to hear. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Well, I still think that the forum suggestion is a good suggestion. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
I don't believe that there should be a veto. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
I do believe that there are many people throughout | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
the island of Ireland, many stakeholders, business groups, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
many farming associations, the CBI and many others in the North | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
who would gladly accept the opportunity to participate in | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
a conversation which is about facing up to the huge challenges which this | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
decision that has been made poses for all of us | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
All rather embarrassing for the Irish Government. | :02:03. | :02:20. | |
That invitation is open to everybody, but obviously | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
it couldn't function effectively unless you had | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
So wherever we go from here, it won't be via an All-Ireland Forum. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
The Irish Government's handling of this forum idea has been | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
It is certainly not a good beginning to a period where everybody | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
The Northern Ireland Executive is sticking to its key economic | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
policy to cut the tax companies pay on their profits. | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
The First Minister says there's nothing to fear from the UK | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
government planning another big reduction in its | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Earlier our business correspondent Julian O'Neill told me what that | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
The upside of this would be it would cost Stormont less. | :03:02. | :03:18. | |
The narrower the gap between the UK rate and the Northern Ireland rate, | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
the less the hit the grand takes, those are the rules at the moment. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
But the downside would be it would lessen Northern Ireland's | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
attractiveness compared to other parts of the UK. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
What would it mean for the jobs which the Executive hopes | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
to create for us benefiting from the lower corporation tax? | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
It would almost certainly mean a revision of the jobs benefits | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
The Executive has fought a long and hard battle to get to this point | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
and all through this time the ground has shifted beneath its feet. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
When it started in this journey, the corporation tax rate | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
in the UK was 28% but cut after cut has reduced it, | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
has reduce the selling point that 12.5% and the jobs dividend has been | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
A man who stabbed his friend about 200 times has been sentenced | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Wesley Harry Vance who was employed as a care worker admitted killing | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
23-year-old Kyle Neil from Belfast at a house in Comber last year. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
This is Kyle Neil, a father of one from Belfast to have | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
This is Kyle Neil, a father of one from Belfast who had | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
He was stabbed 200 times including 50 times to the head and face. | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
Following a house party in Comber in April last year. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
The police have called it a brutal act of violence. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
20-year-old Wesley Harry Barnes, here previously completed guilty | :04:48. | :04:59. | |
to murder at the Churchgate Studios address he was living at the time. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
He will spend a minimum of 12 years in prison. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
The court heard that both men were drunk when a heated | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
argument happened after the other guests have left the party. | :05:10. | :05:26. | |
His girlfriend Stephanie Todd from Russell court in Belfast | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
admitted obstructing police of the murder. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
The judge said he took into consideration Vans's guilty plea and | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
the attack wasn't premeditated. Kyle Neil's mother said her family were | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
experiencing an incredibly difficult time. She said her son was a loyal | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
friend, but above all, an amazing dad crisis to Sophie. She has been | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
robbed of his love and he will never see the milestones throughout her | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
life. She says the family are disappointed with the sentence and | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
are exploring the option of an appeal. After the sentence was | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
passed, there were heckles from the public galleries Vans was led away | :06:11. | :06:11. | |
in handcuffs. Police is a inn Cambodia say a man | :06:12. | :06:29. | |
from Northern Ireland has been found in a guesthouse dead. It is | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
understood a second man from Northern Ireland was taken to | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
hospital at the same time. He discharged himself and went missing, | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
but was located after a social media appeal from friends and family. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
The Ambulance Service says it will be months before it can provide | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
It had 24 fewer members of staff than required on Saturday. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Ambulances from the voluntary sector had to be drafted | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
It is a vital part of the Health Service. Carrying patients to care. | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
But staffing problems meant that on Saturday night, 12 ambulances which | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
should have been on the road, couldn't operate. It meant less | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
serious call-outs had to wait. I don't want to scaremonger or create | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
a situation that isn't there, but there is a concern that had over the | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
weekend there was a serious crisis the ambulance service would have | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
been under severe pressure. The reasons for the problems are | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
multiple. The service needs to recruit 60 emergency techniciansment | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
there are 80 staff off sick, that's 10% of the workforce. Some are on | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
annual leave and the problems were exacerbated with some staff | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
cancelling overtime they agreed to cover. The problems aren't new. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Weekend staffing has been an issue for two years. Unions say staff | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
welfare needs to be taken seriously. Their working day is very difficult. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
They are not getting their breaks, they are working past their hours, | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
they are relying on overtime to run the service and I think staff are | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
tired. I think there are staff issues within the Ambulance Service | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
which the Ambulance Service and the board are working to rectify. They | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
are recruiting for the Ambulance Service and we are looking at | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
training. We can certainly improve things, but over the weekend the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Ambulance Service took the right approach. The current recruitment | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
drive may help, but training will take time. For now, the service will | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
continue to rely on the support of crews from St John's ambulance and | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
the British Red Cross. The Ambulance Service says despite the on going | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
problems with staffing that the average response times here are | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
still better than those in Great Britain. And it says that anyone | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
with a life threatening condition should have no concerns that the | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
level of cover will affect their care. | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
A new specialist cardiac facility for children on both sides | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
of the border has been officially opened in Dublin. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
The plan is to have all child heart surgery at the unit in Our Lady's | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
?42 million in joint funding has been committed to the service. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
In Belfast ?1 million is to be spent enhancing facilities | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children where | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
children will receive pre and post-operative care. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
The animal welfare charity, the USPCA, has sacked | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
its Chief Executive on the grounds of gross misconduct. | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
It says Stephen Philpott's dismissal relates to his management | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
A car park business near Belfast International Airport | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Karl Airport Parking has been in a long-running dispute | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
It says that remaining open risked further legal action and fines. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Customers who have had their parking cancelled will get a refund. | :09:47. | :09:59. | |
Talks are trying to address safety concerns over an 11th night | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
City Council officials are in discussions with | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
community representatives and the bonfire builders. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
This was the scene last year when the bonfire | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Nearby homes had to have windows boarded up and fire tried train | :10:11. | :10:22. | |
hoses on the properties to prevent them from catching fire. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
At one point the huge bonfire fell over narrowly | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
Since then, this part of the Cumber Greenway | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
between the upper Falls Road and rivers cross at the new has seen | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
community development including children's play park. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
While the bonfire is moved away from the homes of last year's site, | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
it is now close the new park and the council said | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
they are preparing to remove the play apparatus. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
They're still concerned about how high this will be eventually | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
We are really concerned because after last year | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
there would not be a bonfire again on that side, that's not the case. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
This lot are property including old people and flats and they have | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
We want to work with you, and we want to consult with you, if there | :11:24. | :11:39. | |
is going to be a danger to life and property you've got to say it will | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
be scaled down, otherwise the council will have to take action. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Talks are continuing to try to reach a satisfactory outcome to this | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
The rain has cleared off just in time for Tuesday, but unfortunately | :11:50. | :12:03. | |
the dry weather is not set to last too long. Tonight, it is dry. A | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
little bit on the cool side where we have clearer skies. Temperatures | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
will dip into the singing figures, but still not a bad night. Tomorrow | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
will be a much better day. It will be largely dry. A lot of cloud | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
around, but it will break. There will be sunshine, but at times, the | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
cloud will be thick enough to give off the odd isolated shower, but the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
emphasis tomorrow is on dry weather across Ireland and for Wales and | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
much of England too, as we make our way through the day, the scattered | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
showers will begin to drive into Scotland and down to the north-east | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
of England as well, elsewhere, not a bad picture. Temperatures in the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
high teens, maybe reaching the low 20s towards the South East of | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Britain. For us, we are looking at best, 16, maybe 17 Celsius where we | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
get the best of any sunnier gaps. Always cooler and fresher towards | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
the north coast because of the winds. Here about 13 or 14 Celsius. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Don't put the umbrella away yet however because come Wednesday, more | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
rain will come our way. It will abgrey day unfortunately. 15 or 16 | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Celsius, the highs, but look at the winds. They begin to come in from | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the south, driving in milder air. So for Thursday and Friday, | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
temperatures will be up. We are looking at 18 or 19 Celsius, maybe | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the odd 20 Celsius by Friday as well. That said, there will be | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
further spells of rain, but at least, the rain will be worlder than | :13:22. | :13:22. | |
it was today! | :13:23. | :13:25. |